DBMS > Ehcache vs. JSqlDb vs. MySQL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. JSqlDb vs. MySQL vs. Snowflake

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Widely used open source RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.mysql.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Konrad von Backstrom

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2009

2018

1995

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

0.8, December 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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